Anja Milenkovič (born 23 June 1982) is a Slovenian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for LUV Graz of the Austrian

ÖFB-Frauenliga The ÖFB-Frauenliga (German for "ÖFB Women League") is the top level women's football league of Austria. Since 2002 the champion qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League. In the 2000s SV Neulengbach dominated the league, winning the cha ...

and the Slovenia national team. She has previously played in the Italian

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

, for

UPC Tavagnacco Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Unione Polisportiva Comunale Tavagnacco, also known as Graphistudio Tavagnacco for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian women's football club from Tavagnacco, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. History Founded in 1989, b ...

and

Chiasiellis Chiasiellis ( fur, Cjasielis, German: ''Katzelsdorf''), sometimes Chiasiellis di Mortegliano (''Cjasielis di Mortean'') or Chiasellis, is a hamlet in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north east Italy. It is a ''frazioni'' of the ''comune'' of Mo ...

Career

Milenkovič started her career in 2001 playing for Tiskarna Novo Mesto. Three years later she signed for national powerhouse

Krka Novo Mesto Košarkarski klub Krka (English: Basketball Club Krka), commonly referred to as KK Krka or simply Krka, is a professional basketball team based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. The team competes in the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League and the ABA Le ...

. There she won three Slovenian championships and two Slovenian cups and played in the

UEFA Women's Cup The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

. After four seasons with Krka, in 2008 she started her career abroad signing for

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. One year later she moved to

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

to play for SK Kelag Kärnten of the Frauenliga, where she spent two seasons before returning to Serie A in 2011, with

Calcio Chiasiellis Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Chiasiellis, more commonly known simply as Calcio Chiasiellis, was an Italian women's football team from Chiasiellis, Italy. Founded in 1982, it reached Serie A The Serie A (), also called Seri ...

International career

She is also member of the

Slovenia women's national football team The Slovenia women's national football team ( sl, Slovenska ženska nogometna reprezentanca) represents Slovenia in international women's football competition and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia. They played their first ma ...

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at LUV Graz 1982 births Living people Slovenian women's footballers Footballers from Ljubljana Slovenia women's international footballers Serie A (women's football) players Expatriate women's footballers in Austria Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Slovenian expatriate women's footballers Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Women's association football midfielders ASD UPC Tavagnacco players ASD Calcio Chiasiellis players ÖFB Frauen Bundesliga players SK Sturm Graz (women) players ŽNK Olimpija Ljubljana players ŽNK Krka players DFC LUV Graz players {{Slovenia-women-footy-bio-stub